ABSTRACT
Track:  Environmental Management

GIS Applications for Dumping Site Selection Paper Text

Yagoub Mohamed
 Taher Buyong

Increased development due to population growth has negative impacts on the environment. One of these impacts is location of dumping sites in unsuitable areas. To locate a dumping site in a suitable area requires extensive time. If the process of selection is done using GIS, this will reduce the time and enhance accuracy. The aim of this paper is to highlight a user interface developed under ArcView GIS Version 3.0a using a combination of Avenue and dialogs to help in the process of selection. The most important conclusion is that non-GIS users can interactively select their site within ten minutes. However, if the user is not satisfied with the output zones he/she can iterate again.

 

Yagoub Mohamed
Faculty of Geoinformation Science and Engineering
Center for Geographic Information & Analysis
Johor, JOHOR 80990
MALAYSIA

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